Saturday, August 08, 2015

Mackenzie Presbyterian University and Its Pro-Abortion
Professor

By Julio
Severo

Abortion
legalization in Brazil was discussed in a Senate hearing on August 6, 2015. Among
the debaters were pro-abortion feminists. The big surprise was that the Senate introduced
one of them as “Márcia Tiburi, professor at the Mackenzie Presbyterian
University.” Mackenzie is the highest Calvinist educational institution in
Brazil.

Tiburi’s
pro-abortion discourse, recorded by TV Senado (the official TV of the Brazilian
Senate), began by saying that whenever she travels throughout Brazil in her
pro-abortion activism she takes the name Mackenzie with her, stressing that she
is not the only pro-abortion activist at Mackenzie. To watch the video in
Portuguese, use this link: https://youtu.be/DLxm7U0OEes

In
the hearing, the Mackenzie professor said, “To vociferate against abortion is
just a biopolitical way to control women’s lives… and above all to recruit
adherents for authoritarian causes… What is achieved by it and who wins by
achieving it? Antiabortion priests promote a speech by which ignorant masses
are convinced. In a nation of illiterate individuals, including women, and of
excessive corruption in moral terms, votes, tithes and general consumption are infallible.
Therefore, abortion legalization is a fundamental part of a socially
responsible democratic process.”

According
to her curriculum, she is directly connected to Mackenzie since 2008. Her
specialty is to teach philosophy and ethics. But the words that she vociferated
against the unborn life at the Senate demonstrate just the opposite: a total
lack of ethics. Any philosophy that despises the most innocent life despises
ethics itself.

Tiburi,
who in her pro-abortion feminist activism has been praised even by the
Communist Party of Brazil, has been exposing her lack of ethics since before 2008.
Before becoming a Mackenzie professor, she defended abortion in the official
website of the Communist Party of Brazil. If the contractor (Mackenzie—Presbyterian
Church of Brazil) had been careful to make a basic investigation, it would have
easily found, even by a simple Google search, that it was contracting not a
mere and innocent professor, but a radical activist thirsty for the legal
shedding of innocent blood.

How,
in these 7 years of Tiburi at Mackenzie, there was no problem and scandal? The hired
individual is directly connected to the pro-abortion movement. The contractor
is directly connected to the Presbyterian Church of Brazil (PCB).

Tiburi’s
sheer presence as professor at a Protestant university is a sign of victory for
pro-abortion militants and defeat for evangelicals, who should evangelize, not
contract, propagandists of baby-killing.

When
Tiburi chose the designation at the Senate of “Mackenzie professor,” she
fatally compromised the institution, which, because it is openly confessional (Mackenzie
PRESBYTERIAN University), chose to contract a professor who is a pro-abortion
feminist militant. The case is not that she deserves to be fired from
Mackenzie. She never deserved to be contracted.

The
hired individual is not to blame. The contractor, which has poorly chosen its
job applicants, is to blame.

If a
Pentecostal televangelist had committed the error of hiring a pro-abortion
feminist activist for one of its confessional institutions, the self-appointed
Calvinist apologists (“defenders of faith” and of “Sola Theologia”) would
certainly beating them with their Calvinist sticks and damning them to hell.

In
Mackenzie’s case and its pro-abortion professor, all the Calvinist apologists
are in deathly silence, as if they were under monastic oaths never to expose
anything of the Presbyterian university. In this scandal, no pro-abortion
feminist, or her contractor, is going to be “burned” at the fire of the Holy
Calvinist Inquisition. If the case were about some Pentecostal minister, he
would already have become ashes at the condemnation stake.

Nevertheless,
Mackenzie issued in the same day an official release saying:

Clarification Release

August 6, 2015 Chancellery Rectory

On August 6, 2015, the Mackenzie Presbyterian
University president issued a release read at the Senate Human Rights Committee
by Representative Leonardo Quintão to the attendees of the debate whose subject
dealt with abortion. Below, the full text:

Dear Rep. Leonardo Quintão

Mackenzie Presbyterian University, based on its
principles and values, rejects any attempt on life and affirms that the views
expressed by its professors are products of free speech inherent to the human
being and the intellectual life. Therefore, it reaffirms the stance of its
supporting institution, the Presbyterian Church of Brazil, which rejects both
abortion legalization, except for therapeutic abortion, when there is no other
way to save the life of a pregnant woman, and the use of abortifacient
contraceptives.

Evidently,
Mackenzie is not to blame for the insane views of its professors. But cannot a
Protestant-professing institution make a selection and hire only morally fit
professors and according to basic Christian and moral principles? Is there so
big shortage of competent Calvinist applicants for jobs in the Calvinist
institution that was necessary to hire an advocate of baby-killing? Why did not
Mackenzie choose a pro-family Calvinist? Is there, in the whole PCB, no
Calvinist able, in the place of the pro-abortion feminist, to teach philosophy
and ethics at Mackenzie?

And
now does Mackenzie want to dissociate itself from the hired activist by invoking,
in a cynically democratic nod, a defense of an alleged “product of free speech”?

In
this point, I am shocked! Is defense of abortion “free speech”? What about the
defense of the Holocaust? What about the defense of Nazism? What about the defense
of the Inquisition, which slaughtered Jews and Protestants?

Is lack
of ethics “free speech”?

What
about if instead of the pro-abortion professor, Mackenzie had a Julio Severo
who, in his life outside Mackenzie, voiced views against the cessationist
heresy, the Marxist Theology of Integral Mission and Freemasonry? Would Mackenzie
then defend the stances of Julio Severo as “products of free speech”?

Mackenzie
president’s release made it clear that the Presbyterian Church of Brazil “rejects
abortion legalization, except for therapeutic abortion.” He had to quote the Presbyterian
Church of Brazil (PCB), because the Mackenzie Presbyterian University is
subordinate to PCB — thereby making, in a sense, pro-abortion Tiburi strangely
connected to PCB.

Yet,
why does not PCB also reject the so called therapeutic abortion? Dr. Brian
Clowes, in his massive work “The Facts of Life,” says,

Therapeutic abortion: The
current medical literature equates “legal abortion” with “therapeutic abortion.”
The definition of the word “therapeutic,” however, mean “treatment of disease.” The
use of the term “therapeutic” is another pro-abortion attempt to sanitize a
repulsive act, and it also implies that pregnancy is a disease — an assertion
many pro-abortionists have made directly.

Dr.
Roy Heffernan of Tufts University Medical School has said that “Anyone who
performs a therapeutic abortion is either ignorant of modern medical methods or
unwilling to take the time and effort to apply them.”

If
Mackenzie is really filled with activists with the same mindset as Márcia
Tiburi, as she alleged at the Senate herself, I am going to receive a deluge of
boos and complaints. And perhaps even lawsuits. I can hardly wait the headlines:
“Pro-Abortion Professors at the Mackenzie Presbyterian University Sue Pro-Lifer
Julio Severo!”

Be it
as it may, no Christian-professing institution is forced to hire feminist
militants whose lack of ethics leads them to advocate the legal slaughter of
the unborn. If they do it, they have to take the consequences of a bad
Christian testimony.